U.S.-Japan Workshop: New Aspects of Photoresponsive Materials

9602876托尔伯特该奖项支持10名美国学者参加将于1996年11月4日至8日在加利福尼亚州卡塔利娜岛会议中心举行的关于光反应材料新方面的美日研讨会。协作人是亚特兰大佐治亚理工学院的拉伦·托尔伯特教授和加里·舒斯特教授以及九州大学的伊里正弘教授。选择拟议研讨会的主题是为了突出利用光来改变材料性质的最新进展。这种材料可用于光电器件，如成像、存储和显示器件，以及所谓的“智能”材料，其模仿生命系统的光驱动响应。这些包括颜色的变化（“光致变色”）以及导致实际运动的变化（“光力学”）。当然，最终的光驱动生物反应是光合作用，这代表了两国持续的活动焦点。美国和日本都在这些领域取得了根本性的发现，这两个群体之间增加思想和信息的交流显然对保持高水平的智力产出至关重要。美国参与者在光化学、光物理和材料科学领域提供了广泛的专业知识和地域代表性，并且是在美国最活跃的研究人员的基础上被选中的，同时提供了多样化的兴趣范围。因此，该提案实现了该计划通过国际合作交流和转移科学知识的目标。＊＊＊

9602876 Tolbert This award supports the participation of 10 U.S. academic participants in a U.S.-Japan seminar on New Aspects of Photoresponsive Materials, to be held at the Catalina Island Conference Center, California, from November 4-8, 1996. The co-organizers are Professors Laren Tolbert and Gary Schuster of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Professor Masahiro Irie of Kyushu University. The theme of the proposed seminar was chosen in order to highlight recent advances in the use of light to bring about changes in the properties of materials. Such materials may be used in optoelectronic devices, such as imaging, memory, and display devices, as well as so-called "smart" materials which mimic the light-driven responses of living systems. These include changes in color ("photochromics") as well as changes leading to actual motion ("optomechanics"). Of course, the ultimate light-driven biological response is photosynthesis, and this represents a continuing focus of activity in both countries. Fundamental discoveries in each of these areas are being made both in U.S. and in Japan, and increased exchange of ideas and information between these two groups is clearly essential to maintaining a high level of intellectual output. The U.S. participants provide a broad cross section of expertise and geographical representation in the area of photochemistry, photophysics, and materials science, and were selected on the basis of being the most active researchers in the U. S. while providing a diverse range of interests. Therefore, this proposal fulfills the objectives of the Program in its exchange and transfer of scientific knowledge through international collaboration. ***